Japanese gymnast Kohei Uchimura stumbled off the pommel horse in
the last event of the competition, and the judges gave him a
terrible score — leaving Japan in fourth place behind China,
Great Britain, and Ukraine.

But the Japanese team thought the judges mis-scored Uchimura's
routine, so they appealed. And that's when things got
interesting.

There's a rule in Olympic gymnastics that says teams must
pay a fee to make an appeal. So the Japan team gave the judges a
stack of $100's, and it was totally legal.

"A smart national governing body sends their team with an
envelope of cash for this very reason,"
Hendricks added.

Ultimately, it's probably a good policy. But given the amount of
conspiracy theories surrounding Olympic judging, the images of
the Japan coach handing the judges straight-up cash is still
pretty jarring.